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Mugabe praises shows stupidity of hating each
JUST when you think the funeral saga surrounding the late former President Robert Mugabe is finally over, new twists and turns emerge.Not to mention that everyone - virtually everyone - wants ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:41hrs | 1781 | by Conway Tutani
Zimbabwe to de-racialise land ownership
Zimbabwe says its land ownership rights will no longer take race into account as the southern African country continues to craft policies that seek to depart from those set under the Robert Mugabe reg...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 20:31hrs | 3623 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe The Legacy
Born 21 February 1924 in Kutama Zvimba to Bona a catechist and Gabriel a carpenter no one would have thought that such a humble family would raise up an astute Pan-Africanist, Robert Gabriel Mugabe....Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:33hrs | 1022 | by Daniel Itai
Mnangagwa congratulates Chamisa's MDC
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has congratulated the Nelson Chamisa led MDC for attaining 20 years of its existence as a political party in Zimbabwe. MDC was formed in September 1999 with the la...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 12:05hrs | 16961 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Robert Mugabe: Lessons to be learnt
Nations, like families, learn from past experiences.The death of Robert Mugabe, the second president of a liberated Zimbabwe, 1987-2017, brings many memories to us all.I will propose t...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:59hrs | 698 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zesa, BCC agree on compensation for power station use
AFTER years of fighting between the Bulawayo City Council and Zesa, a subsidiary of the Zimbabwe Power Company, over the ownership of the Bulawayo Power Station, the impasse seems to be coming to a co...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
Police need more to spruce up image
IN our Tuesday edition of NewsDay we carried two unrelated stories which, however, strikingly touched on one of the many sore issues that have created animosity between the police and the very public ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:39hrs | 268 | by Editorial - Newsday
Mugabe leaves a bitter legacy
ROBERT MUGABE'S career can be divided into three main parts.First, as an extraordinarily skilful leader who managed to dominate a fractious nationalist movement opposed to the white-supremacis...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 196 | by The Economist
Model sues minister, ZRP boss, PG Newsday
HARARE-BASED model, Tafadzwa Mushunje, who was awarded a US$45 000 compensation by the court following her arrest and prosecution over charges of assault and deliberately infecting her lover's child w...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | 1200 | by Staff reporter
Imperial forces behind xenophobia
The western imperial forces are adopting new and comprehensive strategies to destabilise and eventually overthrow SADC governments that they do not view as allies amidst suspicions that the same force...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 15:23hrs | 1608 | by Sizalubuhle Khumalo
How UK failed to dislodge Robert Mugabe
BRITAIN'S 40-year effort to find a way to either influence or dislodge Robert Mugabe is one of the country's great post-war foreign policy failures. It is a story spanning six UK prime ministe...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 13:10hrs | 3125 | by Patrick Wintour
Lecturers demand $37,000 a month
Lecturers at state universities are demanding salary reviews that could push their monthly income up to as much as $37 000, it has been revealed.According to a letter written by the Zimbabwe S...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:46hrs | 986 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe: The greatest trick the devil ever played
The fallacy of the hero-turned-villain narrative of Robert Mugabe is the greatest trick this devil ever played.The closest I have to feeling anything is quiet, seething rage.Rage that ...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 264 | by Siphosami Malunga
Obituary: Robert Mugabe, Infallible and fallible in equal measure
The great liberator Robert Mugabe is no more. The first leader of a post-colonial Zimbabwe has died at the age ninety-five. A teacher by profession, Robert Mugabe was introduced to nationalistic polit...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 11:53hrs | 1126 | by Lloyd Msipa
'A hero to oppressed people internationally,' says Chinamasa
Tributes have been paid to former President Robert Mugabe who died aged 95 on Friday.Former Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa spoke to the BBC about Mugabe's legacy, describing him as an "int...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 11:38hrs | 2754 | by ZimLive
Full house at Mnangagwa's SA dinner
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has implored foreign investors to consider investing in Zimbabwe saying the country was now ready for take-off following nearly two decades of isolation. The country has be...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:03hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ready for take off, says President
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has implored foreign investors to consider Zimbabwe, saying the country was now ready for take-off following nearly two decades of isolation. Zimbabwe has been reeling under sancti...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:55hrs | 310 | by STaff reporter
March against sanctions a banal, scapegoating exercise
THIS lot do not get it, do they?Or maybe they are deliberately obtuse?When I first read that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was due to address an anti-sanctions march, I thought it was o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:05hrs | 130 | by Nqaba Matshazi
'Graft hindering justice delivery'
NATIONAL Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) deputy chairperson Paul Themba Nyathi has said government should understand that corruption is the main hindrance to the nation's achievement of fre...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 07:57hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Employment law changes in the UK : proposals in the pipeline for HR
Amid all the political turmoil in July, employers will be forgiven for missing a flurry of proposed new employment laws revealed as Boris Johnson's tenure in 10 Downing Street begins.Many of t...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 20:23hrs | 1570 | by Muchie Shamuyarira
Pastor sues church over unpaid salary
An Anglican Church priest in Bulawayo has taken his employers to court demanding his salary arrears and compensation for using his personal car.Edgars Kasongo, who is based at the St Columbus ...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:01hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa unveils new investment policy document
Zimbabwe now has a new National Investment Policy (NIP) through which President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government pledges to stop policy flip flopping, respect property rights as well as protect and pro...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:14hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Time for serious legal action against ZESA
As the constant, but greatly debilitating, power outages continue to torment the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans - who are already at the mercy of an unprecedented economic turmoil in 10 years - with se...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 10:47hrs | 4992 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Family demands $900,000 for anti-govt protester's death
A MARONDERA woman, Erenia Guwa, whose husband was fatally shot by members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) during the January 2019 demonstration, has approached the High Court, demanding compensa...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:49hrs | 2085 | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions stifle Zimbabwe reforms'
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Moyo has said the removal of illegal sanctions by the West will increase investment in Zimbabwe and aid the implementation of land and secu...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 06:52hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Army brutality land Muchinguri in trouble
A Chinhoyi woman is suing two ministers and the police chief for $300 000 after she was brutalised by four soldiers at her home during the army crackdown that followed the violent January protests....Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:53hrs | 967 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans do not read assertion is nonsensical
Trevor Ncube's assertion that Zimbabweans do not read can only be nonsense given that we have more than 90% literacy rate, Africa's second-highest behind Mauritius! Zimbabweans know very well ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:03hrs | 386 | by Dennis Shoko
'Baba Jukwa' sues police, defence ministers for wrongful umbrella arrest
Journalist Edmund Kudzayi of the "Baba Jukwa" fame is suing Home Affairs and Defence ministers for $500,000 as compensation for his unlawful arrest over possession of a camouflage umbrella.The...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 17:49hrs | 2961 | by ZimLive
Court throws away RTGS$ challenge
THE High Court has dismissed with costs an application filed by Harare businessman and University of Zimbabwe lecturer, Shakespear Hamauswa, challenging the legality of the Real Time Gross Settlement ...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:45hrs | 1391 | by Staff reporter
Economic isolation is hindering Zimbabwe's transformation
Since the election of a new government for Zimbabwe one year ago, the administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in which I serve, has begun reforming our land policies, changing laws, and commen...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:20hrs | 633 | by Foreign Policy
'More Zimbabwean families survive on diaspora remittances'
THE majority of poverty-stricken Zimbabwean families are now heavily dependent on diaspora remittances for their upkeep as the economy continues on a nosedive, with the value of the local currency fai...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:47hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Egyptian diplomat sues hubby's small house in Zimbabwe
A SENIOR Egyptian diplomat seconded to Harare, one Ms Raina, has been taken to court by a local woman Bilkis Banu Ismail, who is seeking $1,5 million compensation in adultery damages after the former ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 3837 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's govt under siege over killings
TWO survivors of the August 1, 2018 military shootings, which claimed six lives in the aftermath of last year's highly controversial general election, have dragged government to court, seeking close t...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:56hrs | 1432 | by Staff reporter
Wrong to blame Zimbabwe crisis on war veterans
I have always been a fan of Zimbabwe Independent. It has an excellent record of providing the nation with sound and truthful analyses of the economic situation in Zimbabwe.The last edition of ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:54hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents, business community and churches against MDC demo
THE High Court yesterday blocked a demonstration planned for today by MDC-Alliance in Bulawayo following an urgent chamber application by residents, business community and churches. Bulawayo H...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: MDC Bulawayo demonstration stopped
A section of Bulawayo business community has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court of Zimbabwe pleading with the court to ban the MDC demonstration planned for Bulawayo tomorrow....Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 11:41hrs | 9970 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Gukurahundi victim documents horror story
A Bulawayo-based Gukurahundi survivor is engaging writers to document what he went through during the mass killings and says he wants to ensure the country's history is not distorted.Charles T...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 10:06hrs | 1109 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Peace, Order Bill still unconstitutional
At a sitting that started on August 8 and ended at 4.10am on August 9, the National Assembly passed the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill with amendments, most of which were intended to meet objecti...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:27hrs | 103 | by Veritas
Mthuli Ncube to establish Offshore Financial Centre in Zimbabwe
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube says Zimbabwe is "very serious" about establishing an Offshore Financial Centre (OFC) in the country, but analysts say given the country's handli...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1457 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa to implement Motlanthe recommendations in September'
GOVERNMENT says it is currently seized with the modalities to implement a wide range of reforms recommended by various election observer missions and the Kgalema Motlanthe commission of inquiry appoin...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:29hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
$20m for MDC violence victims
Government has disbursed $20 million to assist business operators whose properties were damaged during an opposition instigated violent protests in January this year which left a trail of destruction ...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 23:59hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans bracing for fresh unrest as Chamisa plan protests
Zimbabweans are bracing for fresh unrest after the main opposition party unveiled plans for a series of major rallies starting this week and unions called for strike action.Any demonstrations ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 17:06hrs | 2851 | by The Guardian
'Some fallen heroes, battle sites lie forgotten'
While war veterans across the country are fighting for gratuities and other benefits for their participation in Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, some Zimbabweans believe they should be fighting for the...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:18hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Protest outside US embassy continues in Zimbabwe
A silent protest by a group of Zimbabweans outside the US embassy in Harare has continued unabated and has since gone past the 100 day mark.Spokesperson of the group going by the name Broad Al...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:52hrs | 707 | by newzimbabwe
Sex scandal hits school
A massive sex scandal has hit Mahlothova Secondary School in Umguza District, Matabeleland North amid allegations that one Form Three girl dropped out of school after being continuously defiled by one...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 09:47hrs | 3677 | by Staff reporter
Demining firm disowns injured soldier
THE Development Initiative (TDI) has denied claims by a former Zimbabwe National Army member and expert in explosive ordinance disposal (EOD), who said the firm dumped him after he got injured at work...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:53hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
Matanga seeks to be excused from Grace Mugabe's US$4m lawsuit
Police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga, who is being sued by a Lebanese businessman together with former First Lady Grace Mugabe in a US$4 million defamation lawsuit, has approached the High Court...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:26hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter
War vets call for military hospital
WAR veterans have called for the establishment of military hospitals in the country's 10 provinces to cater for their welfare as well as being accorded the same respect as the national flag and anthem...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:29hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
War vets demand employment for their children
Veterans of the 1970s liberation struggle, have called on government to ensure their children are given jobs despite lack of qualifications, claiming their offsprings have been denied a lot of chances...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | 1673 | by Staff reporter
Unhappy anniversary
August marks the first anniversary of the army massacre of six civilians in Harare during a protest over the delay in releasing the election results. At least 35 others were wounded. The Motlanthe Com...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 21:04hrs | 1168 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
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